LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1930, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS

BEATS WALLACE. TRUE “THRILLER” STORY. LONDON, October 25. ■Edgar Wallace has-been out-thrilled by “The True Story of the Kelly Gang” ;writteh by C. H. Chomley, and illustrated by Douglas Low a brother of the ;famous cartoonist, which has just been published. Five thousand copies were sold in a* fortnight in one bookshop. ilie cover design is an armour-clad bushranger, with his back to a gum-tree defending ,himself ...with a revolver against two policemen with rifles. Mr..,Chomley,. in. the preface says that lie lived in the “Kelly country.” His uncle was the Victorian police chief during .the exploits of the'gang, and Mr Chomley had access to official documents and photographs. CRICKETERS BOTH. CLERGYMAN AND GROOM. LONDON, October 23. When Mr P. T, Eckersley, captain of Lancashire, the champion county cricket team, was married to Miss Audrey Hyde-Johnson, at the fashionable church of St. Marks, North Audley Street, London, the ceremony was performed by the former Essex cricketer, Rev. F. H. Gillingham. More than 200 people, including many notable cricketers, attended the reception, Bride and bridegroom are both entbqsiostie about aviation,

; “SNOBBERY” j ) • : ; ENTRY INTO POLITICS. LONDON, October 24. “If I had been a lady-in-waiting to a 1 Royal Princess or something like that, it would have been different,” says Mrs Stewart Richardson, who is contesting the Parliamentary vacancy at South Paddington as a United Empire party candidate. •• Mrs Richardson was adopted by the .= local branch: of tlie United Empire party, .but her candidature was repudiated, by headquarters. She accuses headquarterh ; of snobbery, but the Official? reply that she was only rejected Jjefcause no wppan could win the spat. The electorate comprises 20,000 men and 31,000 women, the predominance of women being explained by the large domestic staffs , maintained by a grent proportion of the residents in this part of Mayfair. ’ “MECCA CALLING.” • 1 RADIO TO AUSTRALIA. : ' • 1 LONDON, October 23. The signal “Mecca calling”may be soon heard by' the Australian wireless enthusiasts, Ibn Snud, the King of the Hedjaz and Nejd, and keeper of the Holy Places, who already makes greab use of aeroplanes, and who has provided motor. buses to carry pilgrims to Mecca, is arranging for a great wireless station at Mecca, the building of which will probably be undertaken by a British firm, . ... ' He also proposes wireless stations ntMedifla and other cities in Arabia, It is expected that business will be br.sk in the pilgrim season, when 250,000 Mohammedans from China, Siberia, Java Borneo, the Celebes, Morocco, and other corners of the Molsem world visit Mecca.

MIGHT HAVE DIED. £IOOO IN NOSE, LONDON, October 24. For 33 miles an out-pat ent of the Manchester Radium Institute named Edwards carried £IOOO worth of radium in his nose after treatment for a nose disease. He started in a motor for Dolgelly with the radium pack still in his nose. The authorities telephoned Chester asking: “Please intercept Edwards,” who went to Chester Hospital, where the radium was removed. It was stated that if the needle had been left long in the nose it might have caused death.

UNDER THE SEA. MODERN DIVERS’ EQUIPMENT. LONDON, October 24. “It is quite possible to construct an observation chamber in which man can descend a mile below the surface of the ocean,” said Mr R. H. Davis, managing director of Siebe, Gorman, Ltd., makers of diving outfits and safety gear. “Theoretically, it may become possible to descend to the bottom of the deepest ocean. We are using observation chambers largely to save the diver’s time. He descends in them, surveys the scene of action, and lays out his plan of work.”

Every man in British submarines is now equipped with Davis safety appliances, and he no longer risks be'ng trapped without a chance. He can inflate the appliance with oxygen, put on the broathing apparatus, and be carried from the submarines to the surface—the reverse of the principle of the parachute.

Mr Davis showed a German “iron man,” weighing 7cwt, in which a diver works at ordinary atmospheric pressure. Germans descended 500 feet in these, which are of the type the Italians are using in salving the sunken Egypt in the Bay of Biscay. “Weight does not matter at a great depth,” said Mr Davis. “A thing becomes buoyant down there. The .weakness is that a diver cannot use his

hands, and has to work from within a pair of pincers in which the arms rtf the ‘iron man’ end.”